Rational:
Reading fluency is very important in the life of a reader. Fluency is
the
ability for a student to read text smoothly and accurately at a
sufficient
pace. When reading fluency is accomplished the reader is able to
concentrate on
the comprehension of the text, instead of the text itself. The reading
process
is not enjoyable for someone who is not a fluent reader. They are not
able to
comprehend what they are reading and feel the pressured to read faster,
therefore they begin to hate reading and avoid it at all costs. This is
why it
is so important to practice reading fluency to become a fluent reader.
Some
procedures that can be taken in order to become a fluent reader are:
Repeated
readings, timed readings, and graphs that show a students’ progress.

Materials:
1.
Basketball goals and
balls.

2.Graph charts / Markers or
colored pencils to
record progress with,

3. Copies of Click Clack
Moo Cows That Type

Procedure:
1.
First the teacher needs to explain to the students what a fluent reader
is and
why it is important to be a fluent reader. “Today students, we are
going to
work on reading fluency. Does anyone know what a fluent reader is? Why
is it
important to read fluently? Now I’m going to read a page from the book
Click
Clack Moo, Cows That Type like a nonfluent reader would. Did you enjoy
that?
Was it easy to understand? Now I’m going to read it fluently. Was that
easier
to understand?”

2.
I
will write a sample
sentence on the board after introducing fluency to the students. My
brother
and I play basketball together.“I
want you to read this
sentence with me sounding out each letter in each word slowly. Did
this
sentence come together and make sense to you?Ok,
now I am going to read it to you really
fast. My bro and I play ball together.DidI
leave out any words or mispronounce
anything? Now, I am going to read this sentence to you using
fluency. Did
that make more sense? I want you to read it with me the second
time.”
The students join in with me and we read the sentence together using
fluency
and saying each word correctly.

3.
Next, I will explain
to the students that they will be paired up with a partner to work on
reading
fluency. “Your partner is going to listen as you read from the book
Click Clack
Moo, Cows that Typeand they will
keep count of the words you read correctly. Your partner will time you
for one
minute and then record how many words you read correctly down on paper.
When
both of you have gone each student will take turns shooting their ball
into the
goal, you will get to tryas many times
as the number of the words you got correct, for example if I read ten
words
fluently then I would get to shoot the ball ten times. Then your
partner gets
to shoot. You will continue to play the game to improve your reading
fluency.
As you play the basketball reading fluency game, you will keep a graph
of your
reading progress each time you make have a total number of points to
score. For
example, if I am able to shoot ten times, because of my reading fluency
progress, I will graph ten. I will not graph how many of the times I
got the
ball in the hoop, but the number of chances that I got to shoot.”

4.
The students are
going to break into their pairs. Each student will be given a
copy of Click
Clack Moo Cows That Type that they will be reading. The stopwatch
will
help them keep track of their 1 minute reads, and will be better for
the
student to hear the alarm to go off instead of their partner
interrupting and
yelling at them to stop. The students will use the copies of the
story to
mark their partner’s words that have been missed and to record where
their
partner stopped reading at. By having the students keep a graph,
they
will be able to see their progress with reading fluency. The number of
times
they get to shoot the ball will get higher and higher as they become
familiar
with the text and their reading fluency improves.

Assessment:I am going to walk around
to each group and listen to them read for 1 minute. The bar
graphs that
the children will be recording their progress for 1 minute reads will
help me
determine if they are reading efficiently. It will depend on what
the
benchmark is for certain grades to see if the student’s pace while
reading is
acceptable or if something needs to be worked on.